DVD : Victor/Victoria
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790746777
Format: Digital Sound, Dolby, Widescreen
ISBN: 0790746778
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 04, 2002
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 2935
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
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Blake edwards brilliantly bubbly gender-bending comic musical about a singer who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Special featuers: subtitles in english french spanish portuguese japanese chinese thai and korean: and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/22/2003 Starring: Julie Andrews Robert Preston Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Pg
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Blake Edwards's delightful Victor/Victoria may be one of the last of the great, old-style movie musical comedies--it is so good, it was turned into a hit Broadway stage musical years later. And both versions starred Edwards's wife Julie Andrews (the former Mary Poppins) in the title role--as Victor and Victoria. She's a down-and-out singer who hooks up with a flamboyantly gay theatrical veteran (Robert Preston), and together they become the toast of 1934 Paris by dreaming up a provocative nightclub act in which Victoria assumes the identity of a man in drag. So, in other words, Andrews plays a woman playing a man playing a woman ... and that's only the beginning of the sexual identity confusions that provide the fuel for this splendidly classy slapstick musical farce. (Yes, it's all those things.) James Garner, as a Chicago club owner, finds himself strangely besotted with this stylish, androgynous creature--even though he thinks Victor/Victoria is a man. Legendary Hollywood composer Henry Mancini (a longtime collaborator with Edwards) won his last Oscar for the score; Andrews, Preston, and Lesley Ann Warren, as Garner's cheeky girlfriend, were also nominated. Musical highlights include Victor/Victoria's sizzling "Le Jazz Hot" (in which Andrews shows off her incredible vocal range); another showstopper for Victor/Victoria, "The Shady Dame from Seville"; Preston's witty ode to "Gay Paree"; Warren's hilarious burlesque number, "King's Can-Can"; and a charmingly casual yet elegant side-by-side number, "You and Me," done in a small club by Preston and Andrews in tuxedos. --Jim Emerson
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For anyone who thinks that Julie Andrews is nothing more than a mere song and dance routine, or the voice behind that infectiously annoying `hills are alive' song I have only one thing to say to you; watch `Victor/Victoria'. I happened to stumble onto this film last night and I have thought of nothing else since. Sure, it has yet to be 24 hours but honestly, it is the ONLY thing that I have thought of since the credits began to roll. As a whole the film is adorable, but its strongest part is none other than Julie Andrews. Her astonishing performance is quite probably her finest moment (although I am very partial to `Marry Poppins') and she chews up each and every scene with her charm and grace.
Victoria Grant is a down-on-her-luck soprano singer willing to `sell her virtue for a meatball' when she runs into the flamboyant Carroll Todd. After becoming quick friends Todd (also down-on-his-luck) suggests that Victoria disguise herself as a man impersonating a woman in order to make some extra money. So that she does, donning the persona of the Count Victor Grezhinski, and she quickly becomes a sensation.
Then walks in King Marchand.
Marchand is a gangster who happens to fall for the spell of Victoria only to become baffled when he is informed that she is a he. Convinced that his initial instincts are not wrong (and that he could in no way be attracted to a man) Marchand makes it a point to uncover Victor's true identity. Marchand's whiney ... Read More
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Other comedies might be funnier, but few compare to the nearly perfect total ensemble performance turned in by the principals, supporting and bit characters in Blake Edwards's Victor Victoria.
Julie Andrews plays Victoria, a down and out singer in gay Paris, circa 1934, who, with Toddy, dreams up a nightclub act in which Andrews feigns a male in drag to become the toast of Paris. Robert Preston's portrayal of the flamboyant gay veteran of the stage, Toddy, is perfect, sometimes cliche, but never over the top. James Garner plays King Marchand, a Chicago nightclub owner, who is taken by Victoria -- until she reveals she is a man -- but he isn't totally taken in by the ruse and so sets out to prove, as much for his own male ego as for the romantic spark he feels for Victoria, that the "he" Victor portrays is really a "she." Garner's expressions throughout the film are hilarious -- first when Victoria reveals, onstage, that she is Victor, a male drag queen, later as he watches, concealed in a closet, as Victoria strips for a bath and he realizes he was right all along, and later when his bodyguard, Squash (played Alex Karras), comes out of the closet.
It's clear that the three principals, Andrews, Preston and Garner, had the time of their lives in this movie. Garner and Andrews's shared scenes are all noteworthy, particularly their bedroom scene as they discuss the sexual identity confusions that are sure to result from his being seen in public with a male drag ... Read More
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This film always makes me smile. It is a joy to watch. I enjoy showing this film to all of my friends and family. What a joy to watch. Julie Andrews and James Garner and Robert Preston and Alex Karras are so great in this film. I loved it !!!!
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Mostly it's because the characters are so very likable. Absolutely, VICTOR/VICTORIA triumphs on the strength of its witty script, the clever humor, and the fabulous songs. The film can tout itself as a dizzying sex farce, a winning period piece comedy, or as a dazzling musical. But all that would've been irrelevant piffle if the actors hadn't come thru with truly wonderful performances, making the audience and the critics root for them. So, in the end, the glue to it, is because the characters are so very likable. The premise (still controversial in 1982) can give pause to some folks, it's not exactly a rated PG topic. But there's warmth and an appeal in VICTOR/VICTORIA which makes it accessible even to the uptight brigade. Curious about how Maria and Mary Poppins became Count Victor Grezhinski? Well, so was I.
Life is very trying in Paris, 1934, for struggling soprano Victoria Grant (Andrews). She can't make a living as a singer, her rent is two weeks overdue, and she's woozy from hunger. On the verge of swapping her virtue for a meatball, Victoria's luck changes when she runs into gay cafe performer Carroll Todd, or "Toddy" (Preston), in a restaurant, and they instantly hit it off. A downpour, a cold, shrinking wardrobe, and Victoria trouncing Toddy's old flame all conspire to give Toddy a screwy idea. And so, six weeks later, Victoria makes her nightclub debut as Count Victor Grezhinski, an exiled aristocrat and a gay Polish female impersonator. Count Grezhinski is an ... Read More
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